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The idea of the post-Newtonian formalism is to employ the fact that in the solar system velocities of astronomical bodies are small and gravitational fields are weak. The PN-formalism is a slow motion, weak field approximation to Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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Note, that the basic variable in the paper by Damour and Iyer (1991a) is \(\bar h^{\alpha \beta } = - h^{\alpha \beta }\).
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Soffel, M.H., Han, WB. (2019). The Post-Newtonian and MPM Formalisms. In: Applied General Relativity. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19673-8_7
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